Call for Panelists/Presenters: CAG 2023 Annual Meeting, May 8 – 12 2023, Montreal
Cultural and Creative Geographies of Religion
Research on religion and religious traditions have been largely absent in cultural and creative geographies (Gilbert et al. 2019). Despite attempts to remain inclusive of “vernacular” and non-economic forms of creativity, this scholarship has remained under the pressing dominance of Eurocentric and secular frameworks that deem religion as uncreative or anti-creative (Arik 2021, Gilbert et al 2019, Kuppinger 2017). This panel invites theory or case-study based research related to all religious traditions to join a conversation on the cultural and creative geographies of religion. The concepts of cultural and creative are left open to bring in reflections from a range of phenomena that includes everyday cultural practices, religious rituals, material and visual culture, faith-based art and more. This includes discussions on art and creativity that emerge problematically through the civilizational boundaries between Islam and the West, as well as conceptualizations of creativity through the taken-for-granted dichotomist formations of the ‘religious’ and ‘secular’.
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
Faith-based creativity
Religion as visual and material culture
Spirituality and creativity
Islamic art and creativity
Islamic architecture
Muslim cultural practices
Cultural geography of religious rituals
Feminist geographies of religion
Creative geographies of the Middle East
Cultural geographies of Islamophobia
Please send short abstracts (200 words max) and bios (60 words max) to [email protected] by January 5th deadline. Submissions are invited for a panel with short presentations, however based on demand there is possibility to create a paper session.
-- Please also contact me if you are not able to join the CAG conference but would like to stay in touch for future conferences under the same theme/session title.
Works cited:
Arik, H. (2021). Creative geographies of Islam: the case of Islamic and traditional visual arts scene in Istanbul. cultural geographies, p.1-15 DOI: 10.1177/14744740211053611
Gilbert, D., Dwyer, C., Ahmed, N., Cuch, L., & Hyacinth, N. (2019). The hidden geographies of religious creativity: Place-making and material culture in West London faith communities. cultural geographies, 26(1), 23-41.
Kuppinger, P. (2017). Religion, art and creativity in the global city. Culture and religion, 18(4), 343-352.
Cultural and Creative Geographies of Religion
Research on religion and religious traditions have been largely absent in cultural and creative geographies (Gilbert et al. 2019). Despite attempts to remain inclusive of “vernacular” and non-economic forms of creativity, this scholarship has remained under the pressing dominance of Eurocentric and secular frameworks that deem religion as uncreative or anti-creative (Arik 2021, Gilbert et al 2019, Kuppinger 2017). This panel invites theory or case-study based research related to all religious traditions to join a conversation on the cultural and creative geographies of religion. The concepts of cultural and creative are left open to bring in reflections from a range of phenomena that includes everyday cultural practices, religious rituals, material and visual culture, faith-based art and more. This includes discussions on art and creativity that emerge problematically through the civilizational boundaries between Islam and the West, as well as conceptualizations of creativity through the taken-for-granted dichotomist formations of the ‘religious’ and ‘secular’.
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
Faith-based creativity
Religion as visual and material culture
Spirituality and creativity
Islamic art and creativity
Islamic architecture
Muslim cultural practices
Cultural geography of religious rituals
Feminist geographies of religion
Creative geographies of the Middle East
Cultural geographies of Islamophobia
Please send short abstracts (200 words max) and bios (60 words max) to [email protected] by January 5th deadline. Submissions are invited for a panel with short presentations, however based on demand there is possibility to create a paper session.
-- Please also contact me if you are not able to join the CAG conference but would like to stay in touch for future conferences under the same theme/session title.
Works cited:
Arik, H. (2021). Creative geographies of Islam: the case of Islamic and traditional visual arts scene in Istanbul. cultural geographies, p.1-15 DOI: 10.1177/14744740211053611
Gilbert, D., Dwyer, C., Ahmed, N., Cuch, L., & Hyacinth, N. (2019). The hidden geographies of religious creativity: Place-making and material culture in West London faith communities. cultural geographies, 26(1), 23-41.
Kuppinger, P. (2017). Religion, art and creativity in the global city. Culture and religion, 18(4), 343-352.